It makes me feel old when people say they saw "Phantom Menace as a kid". I remember when the Palace was an actual movie theatre and I saw A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back there. I also remember seeing Gremlins at Studio 82 on Heritage Drive right across the street from Bonsai.
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I remember when the Chinook movie theatre was where the food courts are now. The one that showed Raiders of the Lost Ark for 90 straight weeks.
I'm pretty sure Raiders played at the Palace close to 2 years also. My mom watched it with her friend and then she took me a year and a half later to watch it there.
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It makes me feel old when people say they saw "Phantom Menace as a kid". I remember when the Palace was an actual movie theatre and I saw A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back there. I also remember seeing Gremlins at Studio 82 on Heritage Drive right across the street from Bonsai.
My mom took me there to New Hope (maybe one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater). She says my eyes were wide as saucers the whole time. I went home and pretended I was Luke shooting down enemies from the Falcon. "Great kid. Don't get cocky".
My mom took me there to New Hope (maybe one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater). She says my eyes were wide as saucers the whole time. I went home and pretended I was Luke shooting down enemies from the Falcon. "Great kid. Don't get cocky".
I also remember going to see The Black Stallion at the Palace, pretended to ride a horse all the way back home.
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My mom took me there to New Hope (maybe one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater). She says my eyes were wide as saucers the whole time. I went home and pretended I was Luke shooting down enemies from the Falcon. "Great kid. Don't get cocky".
I saw the entire original trilogy at the Palace. I remember when Empire was new they were showing a double header of Star Wars and Empire, and when Empire started a few people in the theater started yelling in anger because they thought the theater was just showing Star Wars again. They finally shut up when the title crawl started.
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It makes me feel old when people say they saw "Phantom Menace as a kid". I remember when the Palace was an actual movie theatre and I saw A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back there. I also remember seeing Gremlins at Studio 82 on Heritage Drive right across the street from Bonsai.
I remember seeing a Nightmare On Elm Street at the Palace. Some employees dressed up as Freddie Kruger and would sneak up behind female customers during the movie and scare them by putting the plastic finger knives to their throats and scream "How do you like me now!" Of course the women would scream and the audience would laugh.
As kid my sister and I would go to Studio 82 for Saturday afternoon movies. Also saw the original 2001 A Space Odyssey there.
My mom took me there to New Hope (maybe one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater). She says my eyes were wide as saucers the whole time. I went home and pretended I was Luke shooting down enemies from the Falcon. "Great kid. Don't get cocky".
Hell I remember when we didn't even call it New Hope
It makes me feel old when people say they saw "Phantom Menace as a kid". I remember when the Palace was an actual movie theatre and I saw A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back there. I also remember seeing Gremlins at Studio 82 on Heritage Drive right across the street from Bonsai.
It makes me feel old when people say they saw "Phantom Menace as a kid".
The Phantom Menace came out before I was born.
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This is a massive rabbit hole. I knew of the 1924 imagery a whiole back, which was cool enough, but now all of these additional layers? There goes my productivity today.
Things like Baker Park, and the Baker Sanatorium that stood there before. You can see clearly on modern images where the tree lines were, but being able to overlay the old buildings is cool.
Plus seeing what used to be on/near where my house is, my folks' house, my old schools, etc. is so neat.
Mount Royal University / Lincoln Park air base / Currie Barracks is another cool area.
So much to see. I have always enjoyed history and also maps/cartography, so this is so good, yet soooo bad.
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I would love to be able to visit pre-boom and pre-me Calgary in the 1970s. While I genuinely love Calgary in the present day, Calgary of the early to mid-seventies would have been a fascinating place in hindsight. Dusty old frontier town with a lot of its old buildings intact, right on the cusp of the first oil boom.
Lol, "first oil boom". The first boom was in the 1910s, after oil was found in Turner Valley! And the '70s were the boom times, not the '80s; everybody was going bust in the '80s.
I was looking through some pictures of me as a young kid and I found one from Calgary. Just a bit of a background we only lived in Calgary for 3-4 years I believe from late 80's to summer of 1992. When I moved I would of been 6 years old but surprisingly I have some decent memories of my time in Calgary as a very young kid.
We rented a place in Albert Park which I realize now is kinda a bad part of town. I took a walk there maybe 5-8ish years ago and I did not realize how sketchy it was. Anyways some of my memories.....
1) Going to school at Albert Park School??? I think was the name. I only went there for kindergarten but I remember there was big rainbow on the side of the school and a big school yard. My older brother went to the school a bit further east, kinda a circle looking school. Looking on updated google earth it looks like the old school was torn down and some condos/apartments are there now. I remember going to I think it was a Co-Op at a strip mall close to our house and being dropped off at the supervised drop off while my mom shopped.
2) Sledding by Max Bell arena....there was a hill somewhere west of our townhouse I remember my dad taking me too. For some reason I think it was overlooking Max Bell arena. I also remember going to Max Bell arena for a circus of some sort and just walking the upper concourse.
3) Rubber Duck Floating race??? I remember a day where all these little rubber ducks were released in the river for some kind of contest. I am assuming if your duck won the race you got some money
3) Hot Air Balloons.....Another odd memory. I remember a certain day where there was all kinds of hot air balloons in the sky.
4) Drive in movie theater......this is a foggy memory. All I remember was being in the car watching a movie somewhere. I also have a very foggy memory of watching "the little mermaid" in a regular theater
5) Riley Park wading pool......I do remember going here and being very young. Apparently one time I fell and bumped my head and my mom made me wear a helmet at the pool after that.
